President George W. Bush and his neoconservative handlers have been joined in their plot to justify the war against Iraq from an unlikely source -- Iran. An Iranian government official with ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Tehran sides with the Americans on one big issue � Saddam Hussein's weapons. "Yes, we agree […]
The Washington Post's Richard Cohen takes the Bush administration and, specifically, Attorney General John Ashcroft to task for locking up 762 illegal immigrants post 9/11 who turned out to have no ties to terrorism. Let's have it in Cohen's words. The AG was asked about a report from his own inspector general criticizing the way […]
In a brief reference in this story about education in Turkmenistan, the Associated Press refers to the mythical trans-Afghan pipeline that, according to cartoonist and nut-job Ted Rall, was the reason for our invasion of Afghanistan. The trend worries diplomats and others. Turkmenistan — sitting amid Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan — is in a […]
For those of you unfamiliar with it, (you're lucky) Indymedia is a collection of Web sites from the lunatic left which are rabidly anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-intelligence. How is the Old Gray Lady imitating Indymedia? Well, it's publishing this claptrap by columnist Paul Krugman. Krugman, curiously, chooses to take the most solid evidence that has […]